Mineral magnetism to probe into the nature of palaeomagnetic signals of subtropical red soil sequences in southern China

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 181, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1395-1410

  Liu, Caicai ^a,b   Deng, Chenglong ^a   Liu, Qingsong ^a   Zheng, Longting ^c   Wang, Wei ^d   Xu, Xinming ^e   Huang, Sheng ^a,b   Yuan, Baoyin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c Anhui Museum   (China)

^d Natural History Museum of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region   (China)

^e Zhejiang Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology   (China)

Author keywords

Asia; Magnetic mineralogy and petrology; Magnetostratigraphy

Indexed keywords

BRUNHES CHRON; GEOMAGNETISM; MAGNETIC REVERSAL; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; MATUYAMA CHRON; PALEOMAGNETISM; PETROGRAPHY; RED SOIL; REMANENT MAGNETIZATION; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE;

CHINA; YANGTZE RIVER;

EID: 77954054742     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04592.x     Document Type: Article

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